Shireba Shiruhodo Wallpaper: I want to love more

Artist Comment

First of all Happy Valentine's Day to all of you! <3
Sooooo I finally finished it xD Took me a real while >.>
Thanks to all who helped me during process in my Sandbox
forum. Minna Arigatou! <3

Loved this page, colored it here and used this scan for Background. And trees from various scan I forgot the
links sorry >.>;

Used some self made textures, some preloaded PS textures and some from dA. I thank and credit to their respective
owners.

Well, right now I'm not in mood to type much, been pretty busy recently with stuff. College is killing me in short but
I'll be back soon with my bishies I'm working on for Pande <3

I know it's not perfect, still lots of things that can be improved and I still didn't achieved the desired effect so it
can be updated in future if I would ever open its PSD ever. >3>
Time taken: ummm 50+hours, well I changed many things many times it took almost 6-7 months to finish this x3x
Layers: I stopped counting after 200
Software used: Photoshop
Tool used: My lovely rusty mouse and Wacom Intuos M
Again Happy Valentines' day!Edit: OMG ELITE! Thanks! my first elite wall! :D

From technical point of view, very nicely done. Just one note - it looks like you used motion blur in the trees and it's
kinda irritating me. I'd go for lens blur since I think it looks more naturally.

The characters and the BG blend really nicely but somehow, overall, I still get a feeling there's something missing. Maybe more branches, leaves, falling petals, etc? I dunno, just
something. I can imagine you had a hard time filling up the "empty"
space, though I like the idea of using the bokeh near the edges. Maybe at least that could be more visible?

Not sure which textures are yours and which aren't but all of them seem nicely in place. Good choices on those. Also, I
love how you put the trees reflection on the window glass. The textures and this are a really cool touch and you totally
showed you have an eye for detail here. :D

So all in all, a fine and romantic idea, but still needs some more work / adding some little things / effects to make it
more attractive.

P.S.A reaaaal side note: To have tree shadows on the wall under such an angle, the sun would have to be really low. More
of the tree-top with leaves should be included in the shadow.